Plea of Doval’s son to be heard on January 30

New Delhi, January 22

A Delhi court today agreed to examine a complaint filed by NSA Ajit Doval’s son Vivek Doval seeking action against a magazine for alleged defamatory article and senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh for using that content to “deliberately malign and defame” him to “settle scores with his father”.

The complaint, which has named The Caravan as also the author of the article, will come up for hearing on January 30, when the court will record statements of the witnesses named by Vivek Doval.

The Caravan in its January 16 online write-up titled “The D Companies” had said that Vivek Doval, “runs a hedge fund in the Cayman Islands” which is “an established tax haven” and was “registered merely 13 days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government demonetised all existing Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes, in 2016”. According to the complaint, Ramesh had held a press conference on January 17 reiterating the “baseless and unfounded facts” as narrated in the article. — PTI